Plants of the Punjab. 



237 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Stipulate Simple Leaves. 



Leaf Margins Toothed. 

 Petals ununited. 



Impatiens 

 micranthemum, 



Geraniace^e. 

 F. B. Li. 48L 



Himalaya, 

 6-10,000 ft. 

 Simla (Edge worth). 

 Hattu (Collett). 

 Changlagalli (Douie). 



Impatiens 

 brachycentra, 



Geraniace^, 

 F. B.I. i. 481. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-1 '2,000 ft. 

 Mnrree (Fleming). 



like 

 ed down 

 spots, much 

 straight. 



the last species, but winged leaf stalks prolong- 



the stem, flowers white with red and yellow 



smaller, | in. long, spur also 



1 



4 



in. 



medium size, stem not winged, slender, smooth, 

 branched, leaves 2-5 in., ovate-lanceolate, round-toothed, 

 teeth tipped with a glandular bristle, long-stalked, long- 

 pointed, stipular glands often present, flowers | in. long, 

 white, in racemes or umbel-like clusters in the axils of upper 

 leaves, lip boat-shaped, spur minute or none, capsule 

 narrow, oblong, | in., nearly cylindric, tapering to a point ; 

 otherwise like the rest of this genus. 



Psoralea corylifolia, 



Bahchi. 

 Leguminos^. 

 F. B. Lii. 103. 

 The Plains. 



Althaea officinalis. 

 Marsh Mallow, 



Chil-khairo, kaira- 



ha-jhor. 



F. B. I. i. 319. 



Kashmir. 



medium size, branches annual, dotted with glands ; 

 leaves 1-3 in., roundish, with a widely round-toothed 

 margin, firm, covered with black dots above and below ; 

 flowers ^ in., yellow or white, tipped with purple, 10-30 

 crowded in long-stalked head-like clusters, calyx ^ in., 

 nearly sessile, bell-shaped, teeth 5, lanceolate, the lowest 

 longest, corolla projecting a little beyond the calyx, lower 

 petal keel-shaped, blunt, tip slightly incurved, stamens 

 10, upper stamens united or not .with the otheis in a tube, 

 style long, thread-like, incurved ; pod nearly round, small 

 smooth, black. This plant is used as a tonic, and as an 

 internal and external medicine in leprosy. 



Petals united. 



large, perennial, downy, stem 24-36 in. ; leaves ovoid 

 simple or slightly lobed, toothed, stipules linear-awl shaped; 

 flowers 1-2 in, diam., pink, in axillary clusters on a main 

 stalk, bracteoVs 6-9, joined at the base, linear-lanceolate, 

 half the length of the sepals, sepals 5, petals 5, stamens 

 many, united into a tube, united to the petals, styles thread- 

 like ; carpels many, seed one in each carpel. The leaves 

 are used as a healing apphcation and the seeds in gravel. 



